Valtech UK's Andrew Rendell has been selected, for the second year running, to present at the prestigious Agile2009 conference to be held in Chicago August 24th to 29th.
Andrew will present an experience based paper titled "Descending from the Architect's Ivory Tower". The abstract of the paper is as follows;
"This experience report, by a project's technical architect, details the adoption of agile methods across several teams after one high profile success.
The organization had a long history of waterfall development and a clearly defined remit for technical architects. Years of refinement had led to a set of techniques which contradicted many of the ideals held by agile practitioners.
The author's challenge was to maintain agility and fulfil responsibilities inherited from waterfall processes without reverting to the conventional practices that ultimately lead to the architect's ivory tower."
The session is being run on the first afternoon of the conference. A paper will be published as part of the conference proceedings which will be available by contacting Valtech directly on uk.info@valtech.co.uk immediately following the event.
For more details, see the conference programme: http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/3030 or www.valtech.co.uk